Numlock as standard?
taharka
res00vl8 at alltel.net
Wed Aug 17 01:22:10 UTC 2005
Kam Leo wrote:
>On 8/15/05, Marcus Zingmark <blackline at bodymodification.se> wrote:
>
>
>>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would like
>>it for all users if possible.
>>
>>/// Marcus
>>
>>
>>
>
>Marcus,
>
>Get numlockx-1.0.tar.gz and save it to a local directory. Uncompress
>the files via "tar xvzf numlockx-1.0.tar.gz". Change to the newly
>created numlockx-1.0 directory. Become the superuser, root, (i.e. su
>). Follow the README directions.
>
>An excerpt is presented here:
>
>QUICK INSTALL :
>
>First of all, make sure this package isn't already included in your
> distribution ( e.g. Mandrake includes it ). If you distribution already
> includes NumLockX, use their package instead ( it needn't be necessarily
> called NumLockX, it may be e.g. part of some other package ).
>
>Otherwise, do :
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> make xsetup
> make xinitrc
>
>
>The later steps ( ./configure, make, etc.) are what you need to do.
>That's all there is to it!
>Numlock should start for each user.
>
>
>
AFAIK this will not work!! numlockx only works up to RHL 9. Also, it's
available as an rpm. The Fedora Cores require numlock & the latest
version of Mandrake uses numlock. Are you using numlockx on any of the
Fedora Cores successfully?
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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